Unité 42 - Netflix

Unité 42 is a detective series, which carries us through the twists
and turns of the Internet and emerging technologies. Modern technology
allows criminals to act in the real world, all the while shielded by
their computer screens. The police's Digital Unit therefore combines
field investigations and virtual expeditions using a unique duo: Sam, a
cop newly transferred from the homicide bureau (and not particularly
tech-savvy), and Billie, a young, feisty policewoman and IT expert. They
will need to collaborate, not without difficulty at first, before being
able to learn from each other. For behind each case of cyber
criminality, first and foremost, lies a human story to be told.

Type: Scripted

Languages: French

Status: Running

Runtime: 60 minutes

Premier: 2017-11-19

Unité 42 - United States - Netflix

The United States of America (USA), commonly known as the United States
(U.S.) or America, is a federal republic composed of 50 states, a
federal district, five major self-governing territories, and various
possessions. At 3.8 million square miles (9.8 million km2) and with over
325 million people, the United States is the world's third- or
fourth-largest country by total area and the third-most populous
country. The capital is Washington, D.C., and the largest city by
population is New York City. Forty-eight states and the capital's
federal district are contiguous in North America between Canada and
Mexico. The State of Alaska is in the northwest corner of North America,
bordered by Canada to the east and across the Bering Strait from Russia
to the west. The State of Hawaii is an archipelago in the mid-Pacific
Ocean. The U.S. territories are scattered about the Pacific Ocean and
the Caribbean Sea, stretching across nine official time zones. The
extremely diverse geography, climate, and wildlife of the United States
make it one of the world's 17 megadiverse countries. Paleo-Indians
migrated from Asia to the North American mainland at least 15,000 years
ago. European colonization began in the 16th century. The United States
emerged from the thirteen British colonies established along the East
Coast. Numerous disputes between Great Britain and the colonies
following the French and Indian War led to the American Revolution,
which began in 1775, and the subsequent Declaration of Independence in
1776. The war ended in 1783 with the United States becoming the first
country to gain independence from a European power. The current
constitution was adopted in 1788, with the first ten amendments,
collectively named the Bill of Rights, being ratified in 1791 to
guarantee many fundamental civil liberties. The United States embarked
on a vigorous expansion across North America throughout the 19th
century, acquiring new territories, displacing Native American tribes,
and gradually admitting new states until it spanned the continent by
1848. During the second half of the 19th century, the Civil War led to
the abolition of slavery. By the end of the century, the United States
had extended into the Pacific Ocean, and its economy, driven in large
part by the Industrial Revolution, began to soar. The Spanish–American
War and World War I confirmed the country's status as a global military
power. The United States emerged from World War II as a global
superpower, the first country to develop nuclear weapons, the only
country to use them in warfare, and a permanent member of the United
Nations Security Council. During the Cold War, the United States and the
Soviet Union competed in the Space Race, culminating with the 1969 moon
landing. The end of the Cold War and the collapse of the Soviet Union in
1991 left the United States as the world's sole superpower. The United
States is the world's oldest surviving federation. It is a
representative democracy, “in which majority rule is tempered by
minority rights protected by law”. The United States is a founding
member of the United Nations, World Bank, International Monetary Fund,
Organization of American States (OAS), and other international
organizations. The United States is a highly developed country, with the
world's largest economy by nominal GDP and second-largest economy by
PPP, accounting for approximately a quarter of global GDP. The U.S.
economy is largely post-industrial, characterized by the dominance of
services and knowledge-based activities, although the manufacturing
sector remains the second-largest in the world. The United States is the
world's largest importer and the second largest exporter of goods.
Though its population is only 4.3% of the world total, the U.S. holds
33.4% of the total wealth in the world, the largest share of global
wealth concentrated in a single country. The United States ranks among
the highest nations in several measures of socioeconomic performance,
including average wage, human development, per capita GDP, and
productivity per person. The U.S. is the foremost military power in the
world, making up a third of global military spending, and is a leading
political, cultural, and scientific force internationally.

Unité 42 - Literature, philosophy, and visual art - Netflix

One of the first major promoters of American theater was impresario P.
T. Barnum, who began operating a lower Manhattan entertainment complex
in 1841. The team of Harrigan and Hart produced a series of popular
musical comedies in New York starting in the late 1870s. In the 20th
century, the modern musical form emerged on Broadway; the songs of
musical theater composers such as Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, and
Stephen Sondheim have become pop standards. Playwright Eugene O'Neill
won the Nobel literature prize in 1936; other acclaimed U.S. dramatists
include multiple Pulitzer Prize winners Tennessee Williams, Edward
Albee, and August Wilson. Choreographers Isadora Duncan and Martha
Graham helped create modern dance, while George Balanchine and Jerome
Robbins were leaders in 20th-century ballet.

In the 18th and early 19th centuries, American art and literature took
most of its cues from Europe. Writers such as Nathaniel Hawthorne, Edgar
Allan Poe, and Henry David Thoreau established a distinctive American
literary voice by the middle of the 19th century. Mark Twain and poet
Walt Whitman were major figures in the century's second half; Emily
Dickinson, virtually unknown during her lifetime, is now recognized as
an essential American poet. A work seen as capturing fundamental aspects
of the national experience and character—such as Herman Melville's
Moby-Dick (1851), Twain's The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (1885), F.
Scott Fitzgerald's The Great Gatsby (1925) and Harper Lee's To Kill a
Mockingbird (1960)—may be dubbed the “Great American Novel”. Twelve U.S.
citizens have won the Nobel Prize in Literature, most recently Bob Dylan
in 2016. William Faulkner, Ernest Hemingway and John Steinbeck are often
named among the most influential writers of the 20th century. Popular
literary genres such as the Western and hardboiled crime fiction
developed in the United States. The Beat Generation writers opened up
new literary approaches, as have postmodernist authors such as John
Barth, Thomas Pynchon, and Don DeLillo. The transcendentalists, led by
Thoreau and Ralph Waldo Emerson, established the first major American
philosophical movement. After the Civil War, Charles Sanders Peirce and
then William James and John Dewey were leaders in the development of
pragmatism. In the 20th century, the work of W. V. O. Quine and Richard
Rorty, and later Noam Chomsky, brought analytic philosophy to the fore
of American philosophical academia. John Rawls and Robert Nozick led a
revival of political philosophy. Cornel West and Judith Butler have led
a continental tradition in American philosophical academia. Chicago
school economists like Milton Friedman, James M. Buchanan, and Thomas
Sowell have affected various fields in social and political philosophy.
In the visual arts, the Hudson River School was a mid-19th-century
movement in the tradition of European naturalism. The realist paintings
of Thomas Eakins are now widely celebrated. The 1913 Armory Show in New
York City, an exhibition of European modernist art, shocked the public
and transformed the U.S. art scene. Georgia O'Keeffe, Marsden Hartley,
and others experimented with new, individualistic styles. Major artistic
movements such as the abstract expressionism of Jackson Pollock and
Willem de Kooning and the pop art of Andy Warhol and Roy Lichtenstein
developed largely in the United States. The tide of modernism and then
postmodernism has brought fame to American architects such as Frank
Lloyd Wright, Philip Johnson, and Frank Gehry. Americans have long been
important in the modern artistic medium of photography, with major
photographers including Alfred Stieglitz, Edward Steichen, and Ansel
Adams.